Had a romance subplot, but not a secret crush. And the main character was a 10 year old boy who was more interested in the cool robots than girls. But I suppose it technically wasn't a robot anime, since it focused on the effects of war on civilians.

There is romance, but it's strictly in the backdrop. The main show is about crazy-ass fighting robots based on international stereotypes. England's pilot is a tea-sipping proper English gentleman with a horrible pill addiction who pilots the John Bull Gundam.

FABIO2Don't forget that they always, always must ultimately be resolved by SINGING J-POP.

The absolute nadir of this was that one Macross movie with the guy who'd rather use his giant robot to play his guitar for people instead of blowing them up, though that one about the killer pop diva AI was pretty awful too.

SolRogundam 00, it's sorta emo but pretty much everyone dies by the end